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different parts of the country. The most important contribution was 
Sparganum proliferum, a parasite of man, sent by Dr. H. Gates, of 
Manatee, Florida. The Bureau of Animal Industry supplied a large 
variety of parasites from different parts of the United States, the 
island possessions, India, China, Anam, Canada, Mexico, and Pana- 
ma. Many specimens were also obtained at autopsies of animals 
which had died at the Nationa! Zoological Park. 
Of investigations bearing more or less directly on the collections 
in the Museum, it may be said that the studies by Doctor Stiles have 
related chiefly to the question of child labor in the South as influenced 
by the presence of the hookworm disease. He described the Spar- 
ganum proliferum, above mentioned, and reexamined the original 
specimens of Filaria restiformis Leidy (1880), which he finds not to 
belong to the genus /i/aria but to be a member of the family Mer- 
mithide. In conjunction with Dr. Joseph Goldberger, he published 
on two new species of trematodes, Homalogaster philippinensis 
from the Philippine Islands, and A gamodistomum namus from Africa, 
and on a reexamination of the original specimen of 7'wnia saginata 
abietina. These two authors have also completed a manuscript on a 
number of trematodes of the family Paramphistomide. Doctor 
Ransom continued researches on the nematodes parasitic in ruminants, 
and, on the basis of Museum material, described the following new 
species: Trichostrongylus capricola, Ostertagia trifurcata, O. mar- 
shalli, O. occidentalis, and Cooperia pectinata, all from America. 
The genera Ostertagia and Cooperia are also new. A new species of 
tape worm, Cettotenia mosaica, from rabbits in California, was de- 
scribed by Mr. M. C. Hall, of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Comparative anatomy.—sSeveral thousand entries of skeletons in 
the mammal record books were incorporated in the osteological cata- 
logue. A complete card catalogue of the skulls and skeletons of 
turtles was made, and this collection was relabeled and arranged in 
pasteboard boxes. It became necessary to remove the material which 
had been stored behind the wall cases in the south hall, in order to 
permit of fireproofing. A large series of rough skeletons stored in 
one of the ‘outside buildings, including large numbers of the bones 
of East Indian nammals and birds presented by Doctor Abbott, was 
listed, transferred to specially made metal boxes, and placed in the 
Museum building for greater safety. The three large skeletons of 
Saird’s beaked whale in the possession of the Museum were brought 
together and measured, and one selected to mount for the exhibition 
series, as elsewhere described. 
Plants—-The total tuimber of plants received during the year was 
about 25,000. The adilitions from the U. 8S. Department of Agri- 
culture comprised 2,458 specimens from the Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try, 919 from the Forest Service, 247 from the Biological Survey, 
